Oregon · Private foundation
Sawyer & Jean Marglous Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $85k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 52%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 41
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 52% of the organizations Sawyer & Jean Marglous Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 27 | $85k | 37% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $114k | 52% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $99k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $86k | 68% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $94k | 45% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $91k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 41 | $88k | 49% |
| FY2017 | 31 | $75k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flance Management Inc D/B/A Flance Early Learning Center | $82,000 | 5 | 1% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $45,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Missouri Appleseed | $41,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Portland Art Museum | $25,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Multnomah Athletic Foundation | $25,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Appleseed Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Japanese Garden Society of Oregon | $14,600 | 4 | 0% |
| Oregon Symphony Association | $10,465 | 5 | 0% |
| Portland Rescue Mission | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| St Louis Children's Hospital Foundation | $9,715 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 52 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 67 recipients with no EIN on record ($352k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sawyer & Jean Marglous Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Centene Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Edward Jones Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Edward Jones Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · The Bellwether Foundation · The Kranzberg Family Charitable Foundation · The Jackson Foundation · Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission · St Louis Community Foundation
How this is measured
About Sawyer & Jean Marglous Foundation
- How much does Sawyer & Jean Marglous Foundation give?
- Sawyer & Jean Marglous Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $85,167 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 41 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Sawyer & Jean Marglous Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (16%), Human Services (14%), Health (11%).
- Who are Sawyer & Jean Marglous Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Flance Management Inc D/B/A Flance Early Learning Center ($82k), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($45k), Missouri Appleseed ($41k).
- Does Sawyer & Jean Marglous Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sawyer & Jean Marglous Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sawyer & Jean Marglous Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Centene Foundation, The Oregon Community Foundation, Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund.
- Where is Sawyer & Jean Marglous Foundation based?
- Sawyer & Jean Marglous Foundation is based in OR.
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